Historical Events in 1956 (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 557

• May 21 Jordan government of Said el-Mufti forms
• May 21 US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
• May 21 WITI TV channel 6 in Milwaukee, WI (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting

• May 22 KRIS TV channel 6 in Corpus Christi, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
• May 23 World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, San Francisco
• May 24 1st Eurovision Song Contest: Lys Assia for Switzerland wins singing "Refrain" in Lugano
• May 24 Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha's Parinibbāna

• May 26 A fire on board the aircraft carrier USS Bennington in Narragansett Bay, off Rhode Island, kills 103 crew
• May 26 Reds' John Klippstein, Hershel Freemman & Joe Blacks no-hitter, broken up with 2 outs in 10th & lose to Braves in 11th, 2-1
• May 27 French raid in Algiers
• May 27 US performs nuclear test at Enewetak Atoll (atmospheric tests)

• May 28 Pittsburgh Pirates Dale Long becomes 1st to hit HRs in 8 straight games

• May 29 WESH TV channel 2 in Daytona Beach-Orlando, FL (NBC) 1st broadcast
• May 30 Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee Florida

• May 30 US performs nuclear test at Enewetak Atoll (atmospheric tests)

• Jun 3 3rd class travel on British Railways ends
• Jun 3 KGUN TV channel 9 in Tucson, AZ (ABC) begins broadcasting

• Jun 5 US Federal court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Constitutional
• Jun 6 David Marshall, Singapore's first Chief Minister, resigns.

• Jun 7 Singapore government of Marshall resigns
• Jun 8 Lim Yem Hock forms Singapore government
• Jun 8 Richard B. Fitzgibbon, Jr. killed by another USAF airman in Vietnam, becoming the first American killed in the Vietnam War
• Jun 8 WDAM TV channel 7 in Laurel-Hattiesburg, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting
• Jun 9 Heavy earthquake strikes Afghanistan, 400 killed
• Jun 10 XVI Summer Olympic equestrian events open in Stockholm
• Jun 13 Parliamentary election: Dutch Democrats 50/KVP 49
• Jun 13 The last British troops leave the Suez Canal Zone in Egypt

• Jun 20 At Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle hits 2 Billy Hoeft pitches into right center field bleachers, the only player to ever do so
• Jun 20 Venezolana Flight 253 passenger plane crashes into the sea off Ashbury Park, New Jersey, 74 killed
• Jun 21 Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere
• Jun 21 German DR frees almost 19,000 prisoners
• Jun 21 Oriole Connie Johnson beats WS Jack Harshman (1-0) in dual 1 hitters

• Jun 23 "Transfusion" by Nervous Norvous peaks at #8

• Jun 24 WISC TV channel 3 in Madison, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
• Jun 25 WKNO TV channel 10 in Memphis, Tennessee (PBS) begins broadcasting
• Jun 27 MLB Cleveland Indians trailing Baltimore Orioles 9-1, come back to win 12-11 in 11 innings
• Jun 28 1st atomic reactor built for private research operates (Chicago Illinois)
• Jun 28 Riots break out in Poznan, Poland, 38 die
• Jun 29 American Charles Dumas records first high jump over 7' (2.13m) during US Olympic Trials at Los Angeles, California

• Jun 29 US Federal Interstate Highway System Act signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Bethesda. Maryland [1]
• Jun 30 United DC-7 & TWA collide over Grand Canyon killing 128

• Jul 1 Ibrahim Hashiroe succeeds Said el-Moefti as premier of Jordan

• Jul 2 Elvis Presley records "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel" at RCA studio in New York City
• Jul 2 US performs nuclear test at Enewetak Atoll (atmospheric tests)
• Jul 4 Independence National Historical Park forms in Philadelphia
• Jul 4 US most intense rain fall (1.23" in 1 minute) at Unionville Maryland
• Jul 5 France raises tobacco tax 20% due to war in Algeria
• Jul 6 Cleveland outfielder Jim Busby hits a second grand slam on consecutive days during Indians 4-2 win v Kansas City A's
• Jul 6 MLB Commissioner Ford Frick inaugurates Cy Young Award, to honour baseball's outstanding pitcher of the season

• Jul 7 Douglas Moore/John Latouche' opera "Ballad of Baby Doe," premieres
• Jul 7 Fritz Moravec reaches the peak of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
• Jul 8 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enewetak Atoll

• Jul 10 650,000 US steel workers go on strike
• Jul 10 Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu, Mamelodi, east of Pretoria, South Africa, a soldier of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the ANC
• Jul 10 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
• Jul 13 RCA releases Elvis Presley's single "Hound Dog", a cover of Big Mama Thorton's original, written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, backed with "Don't Be Cruel", written by Otis Blackwell
• Jul 13 WCBI TV channel 4 in Columbus, MS (CBS) begins broadcasting
• Jul 14 Boston Red Sox pitcher Mel Parnell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0 at Fenway Park, Boston
• Jul 15 Iharos runs world record 10k (28:42.8)
• Jul 16 Detroit Tigers & Briggs Stadium sold for then record $5.5 million
• Jul 16 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes part of Russian SFSR
• Jul 16 King Faisal of Iraq begins visit to England
• Jul 16 Last Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus under a canvas tent

• Jul 18 Erno Gero succeeds Matyas Rákosi as party leader of Hungary
• Jul 19 US refuse to lend Egypt money to build a second Aswan Dam
• Jul 20 Confirmation of the first detection of the neutrino by Clyde Cowan, Frederick Reines, F. B. Harrison, H. W. Kruse, and A. D. McGuire published in "Science" (Cowan–Reines neutrino experiment)
• Jul 20 France recognizes Tunisian independence
• Jul 20 Great Britain refuses to lend Egypt money to build a second Aswan Dam
• Jul 20 US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island

• Jul 21 Cincinnati Reds pitcher Brooks Lawrence loses after 13 straight wins
• Jul 21 US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Enewetak Atoll
• Jul 23 Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph

• Jul 23 The Loi Cadre is passed by the French Republic in order to order French overseas territory affairs

• Jul 24 Dodgers lose to the Reds, 2-1, playing in Jersey City's Roosevelt Stadium
• Jul 25 46 die in collision of the SS Andrea Doria and the MS Stockholm off the coast of Nantucket
• Jul 25 Jordan attacks UN Palestine force

• Jul 26 Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser announces plan to nationalize Suez Canal, initiating the "Suez Crisis"
• Jul 27 England cricket spin bowler Jim Laker takes 9-37 in Australia's 1st innings in 4th Test at Manchester; best return ever in Test cricket; bettered in 2nd innings 10-53

• Jul 29 WCKT (now WSVN) TV channel 7 in Miami, Florida (IND) begins broadcasting
• Jul 30 US motto "In God We Trust" authorized
• Jul 31 England cricket spin bowler Jim Laker takes 10-53 in Australia's 2nd innings; match figures 19-90 in 4th Test at Old Trafford; England win by innings & 170 runs
• Aug 1 KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, California (ABC) begins broadcasting
• Aug 3 American sprinter Willie Williams sets 100m world record at 10.1 in Berlin, Germany
• Aug 4 German Wilhelm Herz becomes first to ride motorcycle at 200mph (210mph/338kph) at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah
• Aug 4 Indonesia says it will not pay debts to the Netherlands
• Aug 4 Lee Petty dismounts car on lap 32, waves red flag to field because of dusty conditions at NASCAR Grand National at Tulsa, Oklahoma; race halted and never completed
• Aug 5 Belgian race car driver André Milhoux (27) runs in his only Grand Prix driving a Gordini T32 in Germany; forced to retire after 15 laps due to engine problem
• Aug 5 KUAM TV channel 8 in Agana, Guam (CBS/ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
• Aug 5 WCYB TV channel 5 in Bristol-Kingsport, Virginia (NBC) begins broadcasting
• Aug 6 After going bankrupt in 1955, the American national broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena

• Aug 7 British government sends 3 aircraft carriers to Egypt
• Aug 7 Dynamite transport explodes in Colombia; about 1200 die
• Aug 8 Fire & explosion kill 263 miners at Marcinelle, Belgium
• Aug 8 WDIQ (now KMCT) TV channel 2 in Dozier, AL (PBS) begins
• Aug 9 1st state-wide state-supported educational TV network, Alabama
• Aug 9 South African women demonstrate against pass laws
• Aug 10 23rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 26, All-Stars 0 (75,000)
• Aug 11 1st flight 4-motor Cessna 620
• Aug 12 KOTI TV channel 2 in Klamath Falls, OR (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
• Aug 13 Elvis Presley releases music single "Don't Be Cruel"
• Aug 13 WBIR TV channel 10 in Knoxville, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
• Aug 16 Adlai E Stevenson nominated as US Democratic presidential candidate

• Aug 17 Federal Constitutional Court bans the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in West Germany
• Aug 17 One of the largest demonstrations in South Africa's history, 20,000 women marched to Pretoria's Union Buildings to present petition against carrying of passes by women to the Prime Minister
• Aug 18 Cincinnati Reds (8) & Cubs (2) combine to hit 10 HRs in a 9 inning game
• Aug 18 Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel" reach #1 in the charts, staying for 11 weeks (a record for a single release) [1]
• Aug 20 Republicans convene at Cow Palace
• Aug 21 WTVW TV channel 7 in Evansville, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
• Aug 22 Elvis Presley begins filming "Love Me Tender" (The Reno Brothers)
• Aug 22 US President Eisenhower and VP Richard Nixon renominated by Republican convention in San Francisco
• Aug 24 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Washington, D.C.

• Aug 26 KREY TV channel 10 in Montrose, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting

• Aug 27 Curt Robert of Columbus (Intl League) hits 4 HRs in 7 inning game
• Aug 28 17th Venice Film Festival opens. No Golden Lion awarded
• Aug 29 French government routes troops to Cyprus near Suez crisis
• Aug 30 Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens in Louisiana, longest continuous bridge in the world
• Aug 30 USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
• Aug 30 White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield High School, Texas
• Sep 1 Indian state of Tripura becomes a territory
• Sep 1 KELP (now KCOS) TV channel 13 in El Paso, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting

• Sep 2 Collapse of a rail bridge under a train kills 120 (India)
• Sep 2 Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina finishes 2nd in Italian GP at Monza to win his 3rd straight F1 World Drivers Championship by 3 points from Englishman Stirling Moss
• Sep 2 San Francisco Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service

• Sep 3 Tanks are deployed against racist demonstrators in Clinton, Tennessee
• Sep 5 20 die in a train crash in Springer, New Mexico
• Sep 7 Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'+

• Sep 9 African Party for Liberation of Guinea-Bissau & Cape Verde forms
• Sep 9 Elvis Presley appears on "The Ed Sullivan Show" for the 1st time
• Sep 10 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia
• Sep 10 Public schools integrate in Louisville, Kentucky
• Sep 10 WSYE (now WETM) TV channel 18 in Elmira-Corning, NY (NBC) 1st broadcast

• Sep 11 Vladimir Kuts runs world record 10k (28:42.8)
• Sep 12 Black students enter & are barred from Clay Ky elementary school
• Sep 13 Dike around Dutch polder Eastern Flevoland closes
• Sep 13 Stravinsky's "Canticum Sacrum," premieres in Venice

• Sep 17 Black students enter Clay elementary school in Kentucky
• Sep 17 Television is first broadcast in Australia
• Sep 17 Yanks clinch pennant #22 on Mantle's 50th homer of year
• Sep 18 Mickey Mantle is 8th to hit 50 HRs in a season
• Sep 19 1st international conference of black writers & artists meets (Sorbonne)
• Sep 21 New York Yankees set dubious MLB record, stranding 20 on base; Mickey Mantle hits a 500' plus homer but rival Boston Red Sox win 13-9 at Fenway Park
• Sep 25 Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0
• Sep 25 Transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation from Newfoundland to Oban
• Sep 27 Great Britain commences 'Operation Buffalo' testing four nuclear fission bombs at Maralinga, South Australia

• Sep 28 RCA Records reports Elvis Presley sold over 10 million records
• Sep 29 "Oh! Susanna" debuts on CBS-TV
• Sep 29 Music single "I Love Mickey" by Mickey Mantle & Teresa Brewer peaks at #87
• Sep 29 Yanks Mickey Mantle hits his 52nd HR of season
• Sep 30 Phillies Robin Roberts gives up a major league record 46th HR
• Sep 30 White Sox Jim Derrington, 16, is youngest to start a game (he loses)
• Oct 1 American jockey Johnny Heckmann becomes first to ride 7 winners at Hawthorne Race Course at Stickney/Cicero near Chicago, Illinois
• Oct 1 Zestienhoven airport at Rotterdam official opens
• Oct 2 1st atomic power clock exhibited-NYC
• Oct 4 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia

• Oct 11 1st Pakistan v Australia Test 95 runs scored on 1st day
• Oct 11 AL President Will Harridge bars Washington Senators move to West Coast, unless unanimously approved by the other AL owners
• Oct 11 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga, Australia
• Oct 12 Marga Klompé becomes first Dutch women elected minister

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